Since this is the most recent site, it seems appropriate to comment on its use! The possibilities for sharing are endless with del.icio.us. I think that's why they separated the "us" in the URL! The site is for us. It is so easy to add bookmarks and tags that it could be a quick toll for adding them for students. For example, when working on a DBQ for social studies, bookmarks could be downloaded quickly for students to glean some background information for their DBQ. When doing a research paper, this would be an excellent way to preview some sites and bookmark them for the students so they don't waste time looking where they shouldn't be looking!
As stated before, I really hope to use blogging to get discussions going about literature and wiki for fostering some student collaborative writing. (Maybe if they write in pairs, they will enjoy the process a little more!) Along professional lines, I hope to share bookmarks with the ELA teachers that I'll collaborate with for Skills Lab. All these ideas have given me something to think about for my professional goals for next year.
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These are excellent ideas for using del.icio.us instructionally!
I agree that delicious will be so useful in Global Studies. I can't wait to use it and I wish I would have known about it sooner. For my personal life it would have made things a lot easier! Eileen
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